comprehendo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- to lay hold of something on all sides; take take or catch hold of, grasp, grip
- to seize upon in a hostile manner, lay hold of; occupy, capture of a place; arrest, detain, apprehend, catch; to intercept (a letter)
- (to a crime or deed) to discover, detect, come upon, reveal
- (of space) to contain, comprise, to enclose, to include, to comprehend
- (figuratively) to shut in, to include
- to conjoin, to fuse with the thing that has come close
- (figuratively) to be connected to a structure serving cognition as follows
Etymology
Affix from Latin prehendō (seize, grasp, take, catch, lay hold of) root from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (seize, take, grasp, hold).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰed-
Gloss
seize, take, grasp, hold
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- apprise English
- comprehension English
- emprise English
- misapprehend English
- misapprehension English
- reprehend English
- -ilis Latin
- apprehendere Latin
- apprehendo Latin
- apprehensionis, apprehensio Latin
- comprehendere Latin
- comprehensivus Latin
- comprehensiō Latin
- hedera Latin
- praeda Latin
- praeda, praedam Latin
- prehendo Latin
- prehendō Latin
- prehensio Latin
- prehensionis, prehensio Latin
- prehensiōnem Latin
- prendere Latin
- reprehendo Latin
- reprehensionis, reprehensio Latin
- superprehendo Latin
- comprensivo Italian
- жуть Russian
- comprensivo Spanish, Castilian
- χανδάνω Ancient Greek
- *gʰed- Proto-Indo-European
- compreensivo Portuguese
- *bigetaną Proto-Germanic
- *getaną Proto-Germanic
- reprise Old French
- comprensivo Galician
- compréhensif Middle French
- entreprise Middle French
- repris Middle French
- *fragetan gmw-pro
- *gendis Proto-Celtic
- comprarre Bourguignon